• Book clubs are easy as checking out a book

    “The Oprah Show,” “The Today Show” and other popular TV shows and magazines have made book clubs trendy and attracted millions back to the joy of reading. Libraries of the Middlesex Automation Consortium (LMxAC) make holding a book discussion as easy as checking out a kit. Member libraries have combined their resources for a system…

  • Museum celebrates water as art world inspiration

    Water is the subject and title of a farreaching exhibition at the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, this fall. Among the works included in the Zimmerli exhibition is Lynn Davis’ selenium toned print “Iceberg II, Disko Bay, Greenland” from 2004. Ranging from a 17th-century Chinese landscape to Bill Viola’s 2005…

  • ‘Winter Delights 2010 — Plein Air and Beyond’

    The Middletown Arts Center (MAC) is hosting the Plein Air Painters of the Jersey Coast (PAPJC) annual exhibition, “Winter Delights 2010 — Plein Air and Beyond,” through Jan. 2. “Lake in October” by Jim Ferrier The show features nearly 200 works celebrating the beauty of the central New Jersey coastal region and more by artists…

  • Scheuerman lining up official visits

    Allentown High School football star Ross Scheuerman got home visits on Dec. 12 from the Lehigh University and Lafayette College football coaches, and Colgate University has been added to the mix. Colgate has committed to offering a financial package and is finalizing it as Scheuerman committed to a Jan. 15 official visit there. He also…

  • Redbirds looking to duplicate grid excitement on the hardwood

    Basketball season begins Friday BY WAYNE WITKOWSKI Correspondent Allentown High School’s boys basketball team, bolstered by two returnees and a deeper squad, looks to continue the excitement that was generated by the football team’s tying the school record for victories with six this past season. The Allentown High School girls varsity basketball team runs through…

  • Elementary school students will enjoy a new way to play

    ALLENTOWN — Newell Elementary School has a new age-appropriate state-ofthe art play structure thanks to federal funding and community members’ kindness. Aware of the national focus on health, nutrition and exercise for the youth of America, the Upper Freehold Regional School District (UFRSD) sought alternative approaches to funding the installation of an age-appropriate fitness structure…

  • Edward M. Koos

    Mr. Koos, 94, of Jobstown, formerly of Millstone, died Dec. 10, 2010, at Virtua Memorial Hospital, Mount Holly. He graduated from Princeton University in 1938. During the 1940s, he was an owner of Koos Brothers Furniture, Rahway. He then became a partner and vice president of Marco Chemical, Linden, from which he retired in 1965.…

  • Protect coasts from new oil drilling with wind energy

    Today, as Environment New Jersey and National Wildlife Federation were releasing a new report on offshore wind, Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar announced the Obama administration’s intentions to protect the Atlantic coast, Pacific coast, and eastern Gulf of Mexico from new oil and gas drilling when the Department of Interior releases the new five-year offshore…

  • Work toward the goal of eradicating hunger

    During the December holidays, many of us will be joining in family festivities where food is plentiful, but far too many of our friends and neighbors will not be so lucky. In fact, an estimated 51 million Americans do not know where their next meal will come from. In New Jersey, food pantries and soup…

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